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	Wes Craven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the Nightmare on Elm Street feature film series.
		Born to devoutly Baptist parents Paul Craven and Caroline Miller, Wes earned an undergraduate degree in writing and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois, and a masters degree in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University.
		Prior to landing his first job in the film industry as a sound editor for a post-production company in New York, Craven briefly taught English at Westminster College and was a humanities professor at Clarkson College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wes_Craven (327 words)

	Wes Craven's New Nightmare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh in the Nightmare on Elm Street series of slasher films.
		Wes Craven set out to make a deliberately more cerebral film than recent entries to the franchise - which he regarded as cartoonish and not faithful to his original theme.
		Craven explains that the evil has taken the form of Freddy because it is a familiar one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wes_Craven's_New_Nightmare (1240 words)

	An Afternoon with Wes Craven
		In 1984, Craven breathed new life into the youth horror genre with A Nightmare on Elm Street, a film that spawned a multi-billion dollar series of sequels and electrified the genre with refreshing intelligence and a unique brand of humor.
		Although Craven did not direct any of the five sequels, he deconstructed the genre a decade later with the adventurous Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which was nominated Best Feature at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards.
		It is his wisdom and command as a director that define the complex, startling, and often funny humanity of his terrifying films, and it is his boldness, fortitude, and strength of personal vision that earn him the title maverick.
	www.cinequest.org /2000/guide/craven.html (425 words)

	Wes Craven
		Wes Craven was born in Cleveland in 1939.
		In 1984 Craven created one of the greatest horror films of all time, his masterpiece "A Nightmare On Elmstreet." It was about supernatural deformed child killer Freddy Krueger (who later on became a pop icon of the 80's) who muders teens in their dreams to get revenge on the parents who torched him.
		Craven's next film on the other hand, is probably the most influencial and popualr horror films of the 90s.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/FrightFansHorrorPage/halloffame/craven.html (784 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wes Craven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Last House on the Left DVD cover The Last House on the Left is a 1972 horror film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Sean S. Cunningham.
		Wes Cravens New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh in the A Nightmare On Elm Street horror film series.
		Craven holds an undergraduate degree in writing and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois, and a masters degree in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wes-Craven (1388 words)

	Wes Craven @ Filmbug
		Craven is also set to direct the screen adaptation of his first novel, the science fiction thriller Fountain Society, for Dreamworks.
		Craven reinvented the youth horror genre in 1984 with the classic A Nightmare on Elm Street, a film he wrote and directed.
		Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and holds a Master's Degree in writing and philosophy from John Hopkins University in Baltimore.
	www.filmbug.com /db/428 (471 words)

	Wes Craven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wes Craven is one of the best horror movie directors of our time.
		Wes Craven is from Cleveland, Ohio and because of his strict religion, never even saw a movie until he was a senior in college.
		Wes Craven has a son, Jonathan Craven (1965) and a daughter, Jessica Craven (1968).
	www.geocities.com /nightmarestreeetz2/wescraven.html (227 words)

	KAOS2000 Magazine / Wes Craven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Popular horror director Wes Craven has been known around the film circles for many years now by such legendary works as "Nightmare On Elm Street", "The People Under The Stairs" and most recently the "Scream" trilogy.
		Wes appeared at Cinequest to talk about the new Scream film and also take honors at the awards ceremonies.
		Future projects for Wes include a film version of a novel of his that is a thriller / love story.
	www.kaos2000.net /interviews/wescraven00.html (897 words)

	All About Wes Craven
		Wes Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio on 08-02-1939.
		Craven is best known for his involvement with the burnt maniac from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies; Freddy Krueger.
		Wes Craven's first movie was Last House on the Left which was made in 1972.
	www.freewebs.com /rtc1012 (335 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Wes Craven's New Nightmare [1995]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Craven's script focuses on a malevolent demon that has escaped from the stories in which he was trapped because they have lost their power to scare.
		Non-actors such as Wes Craven and New Line Cinema's Bob Shaye play their parts very effectively, and the images of Robert Englund that we see could not be in greater contrast to those of his character Freddy.
		Wes Craven's New Nightmare truly morphs the boundary between the real and unreal, delivering a level of suspense and evil that all the earlier Elm Street sequels could never hope to equal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WIA3 (1950 words)

	Review: Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wes Craven's New Nightmare focuses on the lives of some of the actors who appeared in the 1984 original (Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, and John Saxon, all of whom play themselves).
		For his part, Craven (who also appears in the film) is writing a new script (which turns out to be the screenplay for this picture).
		Craven has given himself a wonderful new playground to fool around in, and he clearly relishes the opportunity.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/w/wes_cravens.html (782 words)

	Wes Craven
		Wes Craven, the man who made all of our nightmares come true, has created a few classic films that have forever changed the shape of horror today.
		There are three films Wes Craven made that, in my mind, helped revolutionized horror as we know today.
		Whether it was with the sexual-deviant "Krug", cannibalistic "Pluto", or the supernatural "Freddy Kreuger", Craven's films always focus on a strong manifestation of evil.
	www.houseofhorrors.com /craven.htm (353 words)

	Wes Craven's New Nightmare DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WES CRAVEN’S NEW NIGHTMARE retools the Freddy character and creates a new mythology; Krueger is no longer the son of a thousand maniacs; rather he is an eternal demon destined to return from his netherworld to walk the realm of mortals.
		Craven includes some commentary (such as the commercialization of Freddy), when he depicts a TV talk show that hosts an auditorium full of little kids who are Freddy Kreuger fans.
		It is the return of Wes Craven that is the big news (Craven would again go on to change the face of mainstream horror with his SCREAM films).
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_NewNight.htm (1839 words)

	Amazon.com: The Directors - Wes Craven: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Craven appears on camera throughout this production, coming across as an intelligent man who refers occasionally to his work as a college teacher before bursting onto the scene with Last House on the Left, a film some critics at the time denounced as revolting.
		Craven is a master at what he does except I don't like the Scream trillogy so that was a waste of space where he could of talked more about his other wonderfully crafted films.
		Wes Craven, the man who has written, directed, produced, or edited more than 30 television and feature films such as "Last House on the Left", "Swamp Thing", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", and the recent "Scream" trilogy, is finally revealed here in the popular "The Directors" series.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004TJRA?v=glance (769 words)

	Interview - Wes Craven for "Red Eye"
		Los Angeles, CA Wes Craven has been making people jump out of their skins for some three decades, with classics such as "The Hills Have Eyes" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street", to the popular "Scream" franchise.
		Craven: I think it's just a general attitude of not - first of all not allowing yourself to do anything that you've seen before, unless you do it so differently that it actually startles the audience, like the head butt.
		Craven: Well they're a pair of great actors, yeah not to be disingenuous, you know but they really, really are good, so as much as I had I never was impeded by what they didn't have - they brought so much to the table, so, it was one of those really happy experiences.
	www.darkhorizons.com /news05/redeye3.php (1071 words)

	WES CRAVEN - SCREAM in Celluloid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If there is any frustration that Craven has to contend with, on a regular basis, then it is people's perceptions of the thriller genre that he embodies.
		Craven, a human canvas upon which the world has inscribed it's pain, fury and vulnerability, and from which our nightmares have been spawned.
		Wes Craven is neither as big, bad or demented as one may be lead to believe.
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/craven2.html (803 words)

	Reel.com: Wes Craven Interview
		For over two decades, Wes Craven has been this nation's foremost chronicler of family dysfunction (Nightmare on Elm Street), racial injustice (The People Under the Stairs, The Serpent and the Rainbow) and the annoying tendency reality has of disintegrating when you're not paying close attention (Wes Craven's New Nightmare).
		Once reporters see the film, they'll either say "Craven is capable of doing something very different," or they'll just kind of go around me and say that it's just a tremendous performance by Streep, or focus on the real woman [musician/teacher, Roberta Guaspari], and that's just fine.
		I've been a teacher [Craven was once a professor of the humanities], I've gotten divorced, I come from a broken family, I love classical music in general.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/craven (1230 words)

	Wes Craven Pics - Wes Craven News - Wes Craven Information
		Wes Craven is a well established director of the horror genre, directing many cult classics including The Hills Have Eyes and A Nightmare On Elm Street.
		Wes Craven has two children called Johnathan and Jessica.
		Wes studied English Literature at a university in Illinois but after a bout of illness caused him to take a year off, he studied psycology instead.
	www.tv.com /wes-craven/person/24526/summary.html (144 words)

	Book Wes Craven for Event, Meeting, Gala
		After an unhappy childhood being raised in a Baptist family, Craven left Cleveland to study English Literature at Wheaton College in Illinois, but after illness, he left the school for one year before returning to study psychology.
		In 1963 Craven received a degree in writing and psychology and in 1964 he earned a Masters from Johns Hopkins University.
		Craven left his job as a teacher and after employment as taxi driver, became a sound editor for a post-production company in New York.
	www.grabow.biz /Celebrities/WesCraven.htm (354 words)

	New Nightmare (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wes Craven, a hack scare-film director if there ever was one, returns to the sinister icon that made him famous, Freddy Krueger, in this weird in-joke featuring Heather Langenkamp, the heroine of the original NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, as herself.
		Of course, this means that a lot of people have to die, and somewhere along the way her son becomes possessed by the evil man's spirit (or some such nonsense).
		Craven has always had a hard time scaring me, and while I can acknowledge the power (if not the greatness) of a LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, or the originality of SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, I have to say that I think his is one of the most undistinguished careers in Hollywood.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0111686 (707 words)

	Filmfanzine \| Wes Craven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland in 1939.
		Craven has also produced a lot of films, as Dracula 2000, The Breed, Wishmaster, etc.
		Director Patrick Lussier, who directed the recent Dracula 2000 sequels to the Wes Craven produced original, has an idea for a fourth film with the blood thirsty Dracula.
	www.filmfanzine.com /?page_id=story&art_id=364 (528 words)

	Up4U: Wes Craven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wes Craven was raised in a very strict Baptist family, and never saw a movie until he went to college.
		The nudity ensured boffo box office, and Craven and Cunningham made about $90,000 off it, which they used to fund their first horror flick, The Last House on the Left.
		In 1984, Craven's A Nightmare On Elm Street scared the hell out of millions of people, becoming a huge popular and critical success, and making the murderous Freddy Krueger a part of American pop culture.
	www.up4u.net /cs/go/People/WesCraven (482 words)

	E! Online - Celebs - Q&A: Wes Craven - Page 1 of 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wes Craven didn't set out to be Hollywood's master of the macabre.
		In fact, until he stumbled into horror films some 20 years ago, the former college humanities professor didn't even know he had a knack for scaring the bejesus out of people.
		That mixture of the funny and the frightening might well be a metaphor for Craven's own demons--the men and women of the film ratings board.
	www.eonline.com /Celebs/Qa/Craven (317 words)

	Review: Red Eye - Cinematical
		Craven seems to have acquired a taste not only for combining the DNA of different movie genres, but also for trying to top his own work.
		And Wes Craven has the skills to thump our expectations early on, as when Murphy's character responds to McAdams’ sass by simply punching her lights out.
		Craven has been trying to shoot the ultimate Chasing the Killer Through the House scene for a while now; he attempted it in all of the Scream movies, as well as other films.
	www.cinematical.com /2005/08/22/review-red-eye (1234 words)

	DVD Times - Cursed (Wes Craven's) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So here they are again, with their take on the werewolf movie but there’s a distinct feeling of being there, done that, proving the breed of lycanthrope is no different, it’s just changed cities.
		Certainly Craven throws in enough decent laughs, and his trademark style is written all over a quality dream sequence, and the initial run-in with the werewolf, but unfortunately much of the film is haphazard and rather uninspired.
		It’s criminal really that Craven and Williamson should turn in such uninteresting work given their portfolios which is what probably taints the movie more than the film itself, since certain expectations are not met, but while the film has its obvious flaws, it’s still entertaining.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=58393 (2030 words)

	KNAC.COM - Features - An Interview With Wes Craven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yet unlike the hollow shock tactics of slasher flicks, Craven’s films are concept-driven and allegorical, and they often get under your skin because of their metaphorical power.
		Within his best films, Craven tackles our phobias and shadow sides and forces us to face them out in the open where we are unable to hide.
		Wes Craven recently took a break from his new production Cursed – a werewolf movie scripted by Scream’s Kevin Williamson – to promote the Anchor Bay DVD reissue of his 1977 movie The Hills Have Eyes, a violent tale of suburbanites battling cannibalistic mountain people.
	www.knac.com /article.asp?ArticleID=2701 (4574 words)

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		Wes stops as his HOUSEKEEPER emerges from the kitchen with a steaming cup of coffee.
		WES I think of it as sort of a nightmare in progress.
		WES Interestingly enough, in the dreams there is one person.
	www.hundland.com /scripts/WesCravensNewNightmare.txt (11859 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Heather Langenkamp in Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, the genius of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is that it’s played totally straight.
		Worse than the child, though, is the character of the doctor (Fran Bennett), who can be seen as an offshoot of the cliché cop from slasher formula who won’t believe the kids and in fact thinks that the kids are causing all the mayhem.
		Wes Craven’s New Nightmare takes a unique premise and really tries to go somewhere with it, making its franchise villain scary again while also giving viewers something to think about.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/wescravensnewnightmare.html (1370 words)

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